Homemade caramel sundaes are DELICIOUS (thanks mum X3)



Yes, I survived my camping trip. I find it funny that I nearly did have a life-death situation thrust upon me... Who wants to hear what happened?
Well like it or not I'm gonna tell ya so you don't really have a choice.
So on the second morning we had to switch campsites and the site we came to was pretty quiet, and we unpacked and stuff. There were two seperate sides of the site, one for the tents and one for storing the food and relaxing on the chairs and stuff. So I was on the leisure side brushing my teeth while my mum and dad and brothers were on the other side helping with the tents. I walked over to the brush area to spit out my toothpaste, and when I took a step forward something moved on the ground about a metre on my left. It was nothing other than a full-grown red bellied black snake.
Having my toothbrush in my mouth at the time I couldn't scream, which is something I'm actually grateful for because it would have been a very stupid thing to do. Instead I just choked on my frothy toothpaste.
The snake moved slightly, towards the brush; obviously I'd unintentionally disturbed its morning sunbake in the midst of my personal hygiene. I managed to spit out my toothpaste and I kinda awkwardly shuffled to the left as the snake crawled closer to the bushes. I then slowly yelled "Muuuuuuum?" because my mind was sort of having a blank (at a very inconvenient moment too). Unfortunately she couldn't hear me cause the tents were blocking my voice from her ears. Damn.
I wasn't stupid, I knew the snake wouldn't attack me unless I started chasing or attacking it. Still, I wasn't gonna just ignore it as it slinked onto a log right in our campsite. I yelled out "Muuuuuuuuum!!" again, louder, and my dad heard me (thank god). He yelled back "What is it Laura?" and I calmed shouted back "There's a red bellied black snake right next to me!" He freaked and power walked over (we can't run in camp cause we can trip over wires and stuff) all the while saying "Take a step back slowly, just carefully move away from it, Laura!" I did just that, and when he got there he swore (it was quite funny actually). Anyway, the snake slithered off back to wherever it came from, and I gained a new thrilling experience to tell my grandkids XD it was actually really cool when I got over the initial shock.
My dad wasn't as lucky as me when HE had a run in with another snake though...the next day he went for a jog with my mum, and he turned a corner and something struck out at him. He did a desperate ballerina hop to the side to dodge what had been a young eastern brown snake that he had disturbed, and then he started screaming at mum to slow down behind him. They both watched it leave, and my mum says if it had of been an adult it wouldn't have missed, and cause my dad's heart rate was so high cause he was running and we were two hours away from a hospital, he probably would've been a goner. He said, quote 'I nearly shit myself' when he got back to camp. Ha.
Anyway, I know I'm making it sound bad, but it was an awesome camping trip! Honest! We hand fed a wild kookaburra, it was AMAZING. And we went for a trek up sand dunes then ran down them full pelt, I felt like InuYasha I was going that fast, and you jump and fly forward in the air about 4 metres before landing in the sand again, it's AWESOME! Then we trekked back in a river that I thought would only go knee deep, but it turns out it got up to our chins at some points and we were holding all our supplies including cameras and shoes above our heads...but I was wearing my awesome cowgirl hat so I felt like Indiana Jones
I also pwned my dad at Poker one night. It felt gooooooooood.
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Woah, I've actually gotten so caught up in my camp stuff that I nearly forgot what I originally planned to use this journal entry for. Whoops!
Um, it may not sound like it from the above writings I've put, but I'm actually not feeling 100%...due to a few different reasons. Most of the usual stuff I'm doing to hype myself up - drawing, writing my fanfic, playing piano, and listening to my I-pod - it's not working the best anymore. So I figured I'd take a page out of my friend's books and tell people...hopefully that'll help me feel better and give me some -get-a-grip-depressed-laura- advice
So if you wanna here me ramble on about random shiz going on, then feel free to note me...if not then just gimme a funny icon and that should help A LOT XD
Yeah...
Thanks!
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